Did i escape getting "Pink Eye"?!
Question: Ok... I'm sixteen, have a cold. about a week ago I woke up and my eye was red and that crusty dark yellow moist goop stuff was all over my eyelashes. [ahh i know, right? sorry] well i'm thinking, great this is the last thing i need. [i've had pinkeye once before] so i went over to the sink. cleaned my eye all up. and rinsed my eye out for about 2 minutes.
now obviously, it was still red. so after that i tried to "soothe" it with a paper towel and warm water to get the redness down. It worked and looked just about normal again.. and the next day it happend again. only not at all as bad as the day before ... so i did the same.
and since then...[a week ago] i haven't seen any more of it.
so my question is... did i get pink eye, then "clean it out of my system" or was this just a coincidence?
thank you. :)
Answers: Ok... I'm sixteen, have a cold. about a week ago I woke up and my eye was red and that crusty dark yellow moist goop stuff was all over my eyelashes. [ahh i know, right? sorry] well i'm thinking, great this is the last thing i need. [i've had pinkeye once before] so i went over to the sink. cleaned my eye all up. and rinsed my eye out for about 2 minutes.
now obviously, it was still red. so after that i tried to "soothe" it with a paper towel and warm water to get the redness down. It worked and looked just about normal again.. and the next day it happend again. only not at all as bad as the day before ... so i did the same.
and since then...[a week ago] i haven't seen any more of it.
so my question is... did i get pink eye, then "clean it out of my system" or was this just a coincidence?
thank you. :)
Contrary to what most Drs would have you believe, you did the next to the best thing for pink eye - warm compresses and rinsing. It would have been best if you had used warm milk instead of water. That is what my mom always did for pinkeye, and it never lasted as long as friends who took antibiotics. Sometimes, the simplest things are the best remedies.
Im not professionial but i think it was a coincidence, im pretty sure there are medicines for pink eye and you can just do it with water otherwise it wouldn't be that serious for you to have to go to the doctor, if you want a really true answer to this question though you should see a doctor to find out if what you did really helped get rid of pink eye or if you'r e eye was just rec because you slept on it funny or something